The Indianapolis journal., 1887-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Bishop Bedells physicians now report him
convalescent.
The New York Herald. commencing this morn.
ing, Will advance its price from two to three
cents.
'.Second-story thieves" robbed the residence
of ex- postmaster Kendrick, of Hoboken, N j.,
of about SO, 900 worth of diamonds and jewelry.
At La Crosse, Wis, ice stopped running in
the Mississippi. Sunday night. and the river is
closed, the earliest ever known. The thermom-
eter marked twenty degrees below zero last
night.
The united synod of the Lutheran Church,
South. yesterday rejected the overtures from
the House of Bishops of the Protest slant Episcopal
Church of America upon the subject OF
Christian unity.
Mr.. Richard Casey, a we'll known contractor.
living at 205 Richmond street Cincinnati has
been missing for the last two days He IS
wealthy. and owns a number of houses on Cen
tral avenue. He was seen last the river
bank.
E,telka Gerster has announced that her pro-
posed concert tour throughout the United States
has been abandoned, owing to the breaking
down of her voice Mr. Abbey says that her
trouble is nervousness, and hopes that rest Will
restore her voice.
A passenger train on the Cincinnati Northern
railroad struck handcar. yesterday morning,
near Oak street, Cincinnati. which Chris
Ebert and George Thiesing, section men, were
riding Ebert instantly killed and Thles-
ing seriously injured
Patrick o. Kinahan and Dairy Cuipin. min
ers employed at the Sugar notch mine of the
Hanover Coal Company, at Wilkesbarre; Pa,
were caught in a heavy fall of rock and coal
yesterday and crushed to death. Their mutilat-
ed bodies were recovered.
The expected insanity proceedings in ex-Sen-
ator Jones's did not take place yesterday.
An influential friend of the family arrived at
Detroit from Florida and will make a final
effort to get Mr. Jones away If it fails the con-
templated legal steps will be taken.
The boiler in ]. n. Curtice's box factory, at La
o11I I'D vAr,
foreman was instantly killed; George Holmes
was badly cut and bruised, and VIM. Nichols
was blown l50 feet across a street. but escaped
without serious injuries. The building was
wrecked and the machinery destroyed.
Henrietta Kisch, of New York committed
icide yesterday by hanging herself in closet at
her home Fourteenth street Miss Kisch
was well connected and had Just returned from
Europe where she had spent the past year.
She had been i'll for some time and was un-
doubtedly insane when she took her life.
The fve-year-old daughter of Mrs. Caroline
Heinkel of Corona L. l.. who committed sui
eide on Saturday, died on Sunday night with all
the symptoms of arsenical poisoning Autopsies
revealed arsenic in the intestlnes of both. This
fact corroborates the belief that the woman adj
ministered the poison with suicidal and murder
intent
Henry A. Herdman. once a respected book
keeper in the Citizens National Bank, of Kan
sas City, was yesterday sentenced to six years
imprisonment in the Penitentiary for forgery.
He was arrested in Chicago month ago, while
attempting to buy $40, 900 worth of government
bonds with the proceeds of his crime. His
downfall is attributed to his infatuation for a
woman.
The report. from Temple, Tex, a few days
ago. that Monroe Baggett had been murdered
by Mexicans at Durango proves erroneous. A
dispatch from Durango says that j. NJ. Baggett,
for several years in charge of Otinaha hacienda,
near Durango. fatally shot Sidney S. Eady
formerly OF El Paso, during a9uarrel on the 2lst
inst. Baggett was prepared to leave the coun-
try when the authorities endeavored to arrest
him :, He resisted and killed. Baggett
leaves widow and four children.
VIM. Marsh Wald. New York furrier, lies
dying of hydrophobia at the Brooklyn City Hos
pita1. He was bitten on the left forearm, last
September by Newfoundland dog. He went
to the hospital at once and had the wound cauter-
lied. Localized gangrene set in. and the flesh
sloughed off until the tendons were bare The
wound finally healed, and the house surgeon
was pleased with its progress. On Sunday
and his case is considered about hopeless.